proverb
Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation
Secrets on Cultivating the Mind
Text
Though one has awakened all at once to the same nature as the Buddhas, beginningless habit-energies remain; and so practice must still gradually purify what awakening has already seen.
Attribution
By Bojo Jinul
From Secrets on Cultivating the Mind
Sources
- contentTracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen — Robert E. Buswell